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3.00 Credits
Description: The Internet has had far reaching ramifications on society, our legal system and the legal systems of the many countries in which Americans engage in activities and transact business. Courts, legislatures, government agencies, and attorneys now recognize that the application of preexisting legal doctrine to transactions and situations affected by information technology requires exploration of important and challenging novel issues. The class examines a broad range of topics, including electronic contracts, jurisdiction, ownership of data (such as customer data), the relation between data ownership and privacy law, regulation of network access, and the emerging jurisprudence under some computer-specific statues such as the civil component of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act. In order for students to be prepared for what is sure to be an enormous demand for attorneys in this area, they must learn to understand Cyberspace. Not only is the architecture and technology of great importance, but they must also develop a sharp intuition of when it is appropriate to make comparisons to real space and when to disengage themselves from what they have known to be true and explore the ramifications of virtual space and virtual citizens. This course is designed to teach this type of critical thinking along with the evolution of cyberspace and the current transitions it is presently undergoing. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course will focus on the theory and practices of sentencing. This includes a basic discussion of deterrence, rehabilitation, incapacitation, and just desserts as principles of sentencing, and how these ideas have fallen in and out of favor over time. We will examine the decision to imprison as well as the possibility of alternative or intermediate sanctions, such as community service, fines or shaming. In addition to discussing a brief history of sentencing in general, we will examine recent experiences with sentencing, including the rise of guideline systems (federal and state). We will also explore some of the moral, constitutional, and procedural aspects of the death penalty. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: The Villanova Sentencing Workshop brings together students, sitting judges, criminal law practitioners, and others for two sessions during the Spring Semester to discuss sentencing policy through the lens of pre-screened, real cases. The heart of the workshop is student-judge interaction, and discussion of real cases during two intensive weekend sessions. Specifically, the workshop will include two sessions, each beginning on a Thursday evening and ending mid-day on Saturday. The workshop participants will include approximately twelve students, eight trial judges, a prosecutor and a defense attorney, and other professionals. Each of the workshop sessions will resolve around actual cases submitted by the judges. Before each workshop session, the participants will review voluminous information on each case (often including source materials such as police reports and court transcripts), determine an appropriate sentence, and prepare a very brief sentencing memorandum explaining his or her sentencing decision. This sentencing information will be distributed to the other workshop participants in order to facilitate discussion of the cases. Most of the sessions will be devoted to discussing the cases and learning about the factors that go into the sentencing decision. Meals (at which attendance is mandatory) are included during the workshop. In addition, the students will meet as a group with the instructor (without the judges and others) in regularly scheduled, weekly, seminar-type sessions and perhaps additional special Pennsylvania sentencing guideline training sessions. There may be the need for individual student instructor meetings during the semester. Students will be evaluated on the basis of preparation and participation (particularly in the workshop sessions). This course does not satisfy any of the legal writing requirements. There will be no exam. To facilitate planning, students may not drop the course once registered. Given the special nature of this course, attendance at each of the workshop sessions is essential and mandatory. Few excuses will qualify as excused absences, and unexcused absences may result in the reduction of up to one full letter grade per day (or part thereof) missed, or denial of credit for the workshop. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Colleges: Law Must be enrolled in one of the following Majors: Law
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course in advanced civil procedure covers legal doctrines that apply in complex litigation in the United States. Students will examine the theoretical and practical problems posed by complex litigation through study of the procedures used to initiate, develop, manage, and resolve multi-party and multi-forum cases. Topics include intervention, class certification, jurisdiction and choice of law in class actions, disposition of duplicative or related litigation, large-case discovery, and preclusion issues. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: This course will engage students in a general study of the history and current reality of poverty in our society, as well as how the legal system has responded to the poor, both through governmental programs and the civil justice system. Class topics will include the history and current demographics of poverty, the antipoverty policy issues that underlie the body of law in the area of social welfare, access to justice and the evolution of legal services to the poor, the development and application of due process and the quest for equal protection and various substantive topic areas. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: Karl Llewellyn once wrote that "Jurisprudence is as big as law-and bigger." Jurisprudence, roughly defined, is the study of the concepts and processes that shape, direct, and critique what we do in the name of the law. Through a close reading of seminal statements, both historical and contemporary, on the nature and purpose of law, the course aims to enrich understanding of and facility with such legal building blocks as rules, standards, interpretation, constitutionalism, democracy, justice, rights, natural law, authority, and the "rule of law". The course will emphasize the classical jurisprudential theories, both analytical and normative, and the question whether those theories can survive the radical critiques lodged today by liberals and conservatives alike. Representative authors include Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, John Austin, Jeremy Bentham, Rudolph von Jhering, H.L.A. Hart, Hans Kelsen, Ronald Dworkin, and Richard Posner. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: This two-credit course surveys constitutional and practical issues in the application of the death penalty in America. The course begins with an overview of the United States Supreme Court's modern death penalty jurisprudence, including constitutional decisions regarding statutory, procedural, and substantive limitations on the application of the death penalty; the role of aggravating and mitigating circumstances in determining life or death; jury selection issues endemic to capital cases; and common death penalty trial issues. The course then explores cutting-edge legal issues affecting the administration and application of the death penalty, including issues relating to mental health, mental retardation, and brain damage; the impact of age, race, and gender; the duties of prosecutors and defense lawyers in capital cases; the practical and constitutional implications of systemic deficiencies in funding indigent defense; the question of innocence and exoneration; and emerging international human rights issues. The course will spotlight cases currently pending before the United States Supreme Court and provide practical insights into the day-to-day litigation of capital cases. Adjunct Professors Robert Dunham and Stuart Lev are lawyers in the Capital Habeas Corpus Unit of the Federal Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania who have litigated death penalty cases at all levels of the state and federal appellate courts. Along with occasional guest speakers, they strive to bring their real life experiences into the classroom. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: This course will provide students with an introductory overview of Canon Law, a body of law which drew from ancient Roman law and influenced the development of European Civil Law. Canon law governs not only the internal relations of the clerical hierarchy but many aspects of the religious and family lives of Roman Catholic laity--issues such as annulment and divorce. The course will offer students of any background an illuminating perspective on an influential legal system different from the U.S. common law system, and will provide students with an introduction to aspects of canon law that will be of practical use, such as provisions relating to Church/state relations and annulment. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: **Permission of instructors is required. *2Ls must enroll in Evidence in the fall and Trial Practice in the fall or spring. *3Ls who have completed Evidence but not Trial Practice, must enroll in Trial Practice in the fall. *3Ls who have not completed either Evidence or Trial Practice, must enroll in Evidence in the fall and Trial Practice in the spring. PREREQUISITE: Evidence (7024) Students will prepare for and represent VLS as members of the mock trial team in one or more external trial competitions. Students will explore questions of trial strategy, developing a theory of the case, and reflecting that theory in all aspects of the trial, while further developing the skills introduced in Trial Practice. Students earn two academic credits. Students will be enrolled in the course after try-outs held in the beginning of the fall semester. The course will begin meeting in September, immediately following team selection, and continue through trial competitions in the spring. .00 OR 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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